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Microfilm 15,535-658N-658P
Taft, William H.
(William Howard),
1857-1930.
William H. Taft papers,
1784-1973
(bulk 1880-1930).
676,000
items.
1,563
containers plus
10
oversize.
902.7
linear feet.
658
microfilm reels.
Arranged in twenty-seven series. Series 1: Family Correspondence and Related Items, 1805-1909; Series 2: William Howard Taft-Helen Herron Taft Correspondence, 1882-1929; Series 3: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1877-1941; Series 4: William Howard Taft-Theodore Roosevelt Correspondence, 1897-1918; Series 5: Executive Office Correspondence (Presidential Series No. 1), 1909-1910; Series 6: Executive Office Correspondence (Presidential Series No. 2), 1909-1913; Series 7: The President's Personal File (Presidential Series No. 3), 1909-1913; Series 8: Letterbooks, 1872-1921; Series 9: Speeches, Articles, and Messages, 1850-1929; Series 10: Professional Diaries, 1902-1918; Series 11: Family Diaries and Miscellaneous Personal Volumes, 1835-1930; Series 12: Legal Papers of Alphonso Taft, 1784-1889; Series 13: Legal Papers of William Howard Taft, 1880-1929; Series 14: Legal Notebooks, 1887-1900; Series 15: Miscellaneous Legal Manuscripts, 1881-1930; Series 16: Law Lectures and Related Material, 1897-1921; Series 17: Scrapbooks, 1879-1922; Series 18: Taft Family Financial Papers, 1800-1930; Series 19: Taft Family Financial Account Books and Related Material, 1831-1926; Series 20: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Related Material, 1797-1941; Series 21: Special Correspondence, 1890-1909; Series 22: Miscellaneous Addresses, Articles, and Related Material, circa 1807-1909; Series 23: Miscellaneous Reports and Minutes, 1905-1929; Series 24: Miscellaneous Messages, 1908-1913; Series 25: Miscellany, 1831-1930; Series 26: Oversize Material, 1831-1929; and Series 27: Addition, 1838-1973.
Open to research.
Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Correspondence including letterpress books, diaries, speeches and addresses, presidential and judicial files, legal files and notebooks, family papers and correspondence, business and estate papers, engagement calendars, guest lists, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers documenting Taft's career as U.S. solicitor general (1890-1892), U.S. circuit court judge (1892-1900), president of the U.S. Philippine Commission (1900-1901), governor of the Philippines (1901-1904), secretary of war in Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet (1904-1908), president of the United States (1909-1913), professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School (1913-1921), and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Also documents Taft's service as president of the American Bar Association (1913), president of the League to Enforce Peace (1915), and member and cochairman of the National War Labor Board (1918-1919).
Family members respresented include Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, U.S. secretary of war (1876), attorney general (1876-1877), and minister to Austria-Hungary (1882-1884) and to Russia (1884-1885); his mother, Louise Maria Torrey Taft, civic leader and advocate of the kindergarten movement; his wife, Helen Herron Taft; and his aunt, feminist Delia C. Torrey. Correspondence among these and other Taft family members reflects social and intellectual life in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also includes desk diaries and other papers of President Taft's private secretary, Fred W. Carpenter.
Correspondents include Nelson W. Aldrich; Chester Alan Arthur; Robert Bacon; Richard Achilles Ballinger; Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; Mabel Thorp Boardman; Joseph L. Bristow; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; Nicholas Murray Butler; Archibald Willingham Butt; Joseph Gurney Cannon; George B. Cortelyou; Charles Curtis; John A. Dix; Charles W. Fairbanks; John Hays Hammond; Myron T. Herrick; Charles Evans Hughes; Robert Underwood Johnson; Walter H. Johnson; Frank B. Kellogg; Philander C. Knox; Robert Todd Lincoln; Henry Cabot Lodge; William H. Moody; Francis G. Newlands; Charles Dyer Norton; John J. Pershing; Gifford Pinchot; Whitelaw Reid; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; J.S. Sherman; Henry L. Stimson; Nathan Straus; Oscar S. Straus; Robert A. Taft; Willis Van Devanter; Booker T. Washington; Edward Douglass White; George W. Wickersham; James Wilson; Woodrow Wilson; and Luke E. Wright.
William H. Taft Papers available through the Library of Congress Web site at
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000101
Microfilm edition available for series 1-26,
no. 15,535.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division
Washington, D.C. :
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service,
1972.
Deposit,
William H. Taft,
1919-1929.
Converted to gift,
heirs of William H. Taft,
1952.
Gifts and purchases,
1952-2019.
Blueprints and plans, cartoons, sketches, photographic plates, and photographs
transferred to
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Maps and charts
transferred to
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Memorabilia
transferred to
Smithsonian Institution.
President of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245
Six volume index published by the Library of Congress in 1972 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on the Library of Congress website. Cataloged in record 70608096.
Aldrich, Nelson W.
(Nelson Wilmarth),
1841-1915
Correspondence.
Arthur, Chester Alan,
1829-1886
Correspondence.
Bacon, Robert,
1860-1919
Correspondence.
Ballinger, Richard A.,
1858-1922
Correspondence.
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah,
1862-1927
Correspondence.
Boardman, Mabel Thorp,
1860-1946
Correspondence.
Bristow, Joseph L.
(Joseph Little),
1861-1944
Correspondence.
Bryce, James Bryce,
Viscount,
1838-1922
Correspondence.
Butler, Nicholas Murray,
1862-1947
Correspondence.
Butt, Archibald Willingham,
1866-1912
Correspondence.
Cannon, Joseph Gurney,
1836-1926
Correspondence.
Cortelyou, George B.
(George Bruce),
1862-1940
Correspondence.
Curtis, Charles,
1860-1936
Correspondence.
Dix, John A.
(John Alden),
1860-1928
Correspondence.
Fairbanks, Charles W.
(Charles Warren),
1852-1918
Correspondence.
Hammond, John Hays,
1855-1936
Correspondence.
Herrick, Myron T.
(Myron Timothy),
1854-1929
Correspondence.
Hughes, Charles Evans,
1862-1948
Correspondence.
Johnson, Robert Underwood,
1853-1937
Correspondence.
Johnson, Walter H.,
1848-
Correspondence.
Kellogg, Frank B.
(Frank Billings),
1856-1937
Correspondence.
Knox, Philander C.
(Philander Chase),
1853-1921
Correspondence.
Lincoln, Robert Todd,
1843-1926
Correspondence.
Lodge, Henry Cabot,
1850-1924
Correspondence.
Moody, William H.
(William Henry),
1853-1917
Correspondence.
Newlands, Francis G.
(Francis Griffith),
1848-1917
Correspondence.
Norton, Charles Dyer,
1871-1922
Correspondence.
Pershing, John J.
(John Joseph),
1860-1948
Correspondence.
Pinchot, Gifford,
1865-1946
Correspondence.
Reid, Whitelaw,
1837-1912
Correspondence.
Roosevelt, Theodore,
1858-1919
Correspondence.
Root, Elihu,
1845-1937
Correspondence.
Sherman, J. S.
(James Schoolcraft),
1855-1912
Correspondence.
Stimson, Henry L.
(Henry Lewis),
1867-1950
Correspondence.
Straus, Nathan,
1848-1931
Correspondence.
Straus, Oscar S.
(Oscar Solomon),
1850-1926
Correspondence.
Taft, Robert A.
(Robert Alphonso),
1889-1953
Correspondence.
Van Devanter, Willis,
1859-1941
Correspondence.
Washington, Booker T.,
1856-1915
Correspondence.
White, Edward Douglass,
1845-1921
Correspondence.
Wickersham, George W.
(George Woodward),
1858-1936
Correspondence.
Wilson, James,
1835-1920
Correspondence.
Wilson, Woodrow,
1856-1924
Correspondence.
Wright, Luke E.
(Luke Edward),
1846-1922
Correspondence.
Taft family.
Taft family
Correspondence.
American Bar Association.
League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)
United States.
Department of Justice.
Office of the Attorney General.
United States.
National War Labor Board (1918-1919)
United States.
Philippine Commission (1900-1916)
United States.
Solicitor General.
United States.
Supreme Court.
United States.
War Department.
Yale Law School
Faculty.
Circuit courts
United States.
Constitutional law
United States.
Constitutional law
Study and teaching.
Diplomatic and consular service, American
Austria.
Diplomatic and consular service, American
Russia.
Feminism.
Kindergarten
United States.
Law
United States.
Austria
Foreign relations
United States.
Philippines
Politics and government
1898-1935.
Russia
Foreign relations
United States.
United States
Foreign relations
Austria.
United States
Foreign relations
Russia.
United States
Intellectual life
1865-1918.
United States
Politics and government
1901-1909.
United States
Politics and government
1909-1913.
United States
Social conditions
1865-1918.
United States
Social life and customs
1865-1918.
Judges.
itoamc
Justices, U.S. Supreme Court.
itoamc
Lawyers.
itoamc
Presidents
United States.
itoamc
Carpenter, Fred W.,
1873 or 1874-1957
Fred W. Carpenter papers.
Taft, Alphonso,
1810-1891.
Alphonso Taft papers.
Taft, Louise Maria Torrey,
1827-1907.
Louise Maria Torrey Taft papers.
Taft, Helen Herron,
1861-1943.
Helen Herron Taft papers.
Torrey, Delia C.
Delia C. Torrey papers.
William H. Taft Papers at the Library of Congress
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William H. Taft Papers at the Library of Congress
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Finding aid
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245
Finding aid (PDF)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245.3
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 1
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v1
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 2
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v2
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 3
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v3
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 4
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v4
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 5
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v5
Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 6
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.70608096v6
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